TO DARKEN LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18364, 3 April 1923, Page 5

TO DARKEN LONDON.

IRISH EXTREMIST PLOT. LIGHTING PLANTS ENDANGERED. LONDON. March 23. A plot to destroy the metropolitan electrical and gas works having been discovered by Scotland Yard, special guards have been posted to prevent sabotage intended to plunge London in darkness. The plot was hatched, according to Scotland Yard, by Irish extremists, and was discovered during the round-up of March 11, when many suspects were • deported to Ireland. The authorities learn that the danger is still great, .and in consequence strangers are admitted to the electrical plants and gasworks only after a, stringent examination. A captured letter addressed to a rebel leader known as " 0.0. in Britain, and signed "Sean Moylam, _ has been published by the Free Stale. It indicates that dissensions exist among the Republicans in the United States. Movlam reports that " money is coming in well, and 'Larry' Ginnell is there. He is a nuisance. He has credentials informing all and sundry thai he is the Irish envoy in command of all the troops in the U.S.A. He has appointed a fellow named O'Brien as Consul-General, and has proclaimed himself in control of the money'. Larry wanted 10,000 dollars to run the Legation, but he won't get the In Cork Ben McCarthy, a lad of 16.. was taken from his bed by four armed men at 4 a.m. on Saturday, and later was found shot dead. The body was labelled, " Convicted spy. Shot as a .'reprisal for comrades who were executed during the week." \ ..■■ - , Rebels failed in an attack on Yonghal bridgo, but carried out raids on country post offices, and burned clown numbers of houses ' -*- . , _, Opening the Londonderry Assizes, Mr. Justice . Wilson announced a marked diminution in crime in the county, which was now, he said, normal. The' greatest improvement was shown in the relations between the six counties and the adjoining counties along the border, especially in Donegal, where the Free State had established " its authority. The people were now able to cross and recross without , their former fear and trepidation. ,